Immerse yourself in the amazing week the WOSM delegation experienced at COP22! The first week at COP22 was a whirlwind filled with a lot of hard work, new experiences and endless opportunity. Putting our focus on education and youth participation we...

Being a Scout or Girl Guide helps to lower the risk of mental illness later in life, according to researchers from Edinburgh and Glasgow universities. From their study of 10,000 people from across the United Kingdom who were born in 1958, they...

To celebrate 75 years since the official founding of Air Scouts in the United Kingdom (UK), a celebratory National Air Scout Camp was held in late October in Cornwall in the southwest of England. Although only founded in 1941, Scouts – in Britain and...

The European Scout Committee is pleased to share with you the initial elaboration of the Regional Scout Plan 2016-2019. Following the Regional Conference in June the Committee has been engaged in a number of training opportunities, and was in...

A Delegation of six Scouts will represent WOSM at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UNFCCC, from 7-18 November 2016, Marrakech, Morocco. So Scouting will have a strong voice during the United Nations Conference on...

As teenagers, Leo, Nick and Steven were bullied in school for being different. Their lives took a turn for the better when Ollie Cantos, who is also blind, decided to take them under his wings when they were 10. Having experienced the positive impact...

The 1st of November was proclaimed and instituted as The Africa Youth Day on the occasion of the African Youth Charter adoption in the Executive Council Decision of the Banjul Summit 2006. Africa Youth Day is a day set aside every year to promote the...

[THE ACADEMY 2016] Today, Scouts and Guides from across Europe are traveling to Larnaka in Cyprus, where they will be attending The Academy 2016, the main training, sharing and networking event of the European Regions of the World Organization of the...

The Asia-Pacific Support Centre of the World Scout Bureau is looking for a staff who can support the organization’s flagship project and is willing to accept a project-based appointment with a fixed-term of six months, with a possibility of renewal...

From the 21st to the 24th of October 2016, a team of volunteers and professional staff from different Regions met in Rabat, Morocco, for a meeting on World Scouting new e-Learning project. The vision of this project is to open up eLearning courses...